Remix on AWS with SST

Create and deploy a Remix app to AWS with SST.

There are two ways to deploy a Remix app to AWS with SST.

Serverless
Containers

We’ll use both to build a couple of simple apps below.

Examples

We also have a few other Remix examples that you can refer to.

Serverless

We are going to create a Remix app, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it to using the Remix component.

Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.

1. Create a project

Let’s start by creating our project.

npx create-remix@latest aws-remix
cd aws-remix

We are picking all the default options.

Init SST

Now let’s initialize SST in our app.

npx sst@latest init
npm install

Select the defaults and pick AWS. This’ll create a sst.config.ts file in your project root.

Start dev mode

Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your Remix app.

npx sst dev

Once complete, click on MyWeb in the sidebar and open your Remix app in your browser.

2. Add an S3 Bucket

Let’s allow public access to our S3 Bucket for file uploads. Update your sst.config.ts.

const bucket = new sst.aws.Bucket("MyBucket", {
  access: "public"
});

Add this above the Remix component.

Link the bucket

Now, link the bucket to our Remix app.

new sst.aws.Remix("MyWeb", {
  link: [bucket],
});

3. Create an upload form

Add the upload form client in app/routes/_index.tsx. Replace the Index component with:

export default function Index() {
  const data = useLoaderData<typeof loader>();
  return (
    <div className="flex h-screen items-center justify-center">
      <div className="flex flex-col items-center gap-8">
        <h1 className="leading text-2xl font-bold text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100">
          Welcome to Remix
        </h1>
        <form
          className="flex flex-row gap-4"
          onSubmit={async (e) => {
            e.preventDefault();

            const file = (e.target as HTMLFormElement).file.files?.[0]!;

            const image = await fetch(data.url, {
              body: file,
              method: "PUT",
              headers: {
                "Content-Type": file.type,
                "Content-Disposition": `attachment; filename="${file.name}"`,
              },
            });

            window.location.href = image.url.split("?")[0];
          }}
        >
          <input
            name="file"
            type="file"
            accept="image/png, image/jpeg"
            className="block w-full text-sm text-slate-500
              file:mr-4 file:py-2 file:px-4
              file:rounded-full file:border-0
              file:text-sm file:font-semibold
              file:bg-violet-50 file:text-violet-700
              hover:file:bg-violet-100" />
          <button className="bg-violet-500 hover:bg-violet-700 text-white text-sm
            font-semibold py-2 px-4 rounded-full">
            Upload
          </button>
        </form>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

4. Generate a pre-signed URL

When our app loads, we’ll generate a pre-signed URL for the file upload and use it in the form.

Add this above the Index component in app/routes/_index.tsx.

export async function loader() {
  const command = new PutObjectCommand({
    Key: crypto.randomUUID(),
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
  });
  const url = await getSignedUrl(new S3Client({}), command);

  return { url };
}

Add the relevant imports.

import { Resource } from "sst";
import { useLoaderData } from "@remix-run/react";
import { getSignedUrl } from "@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner";
import { S3Client, PutObjectCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";

And install the npm packages.

npm install @aws-sdk/client-s3 @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner

Head over to the local Remix app in your browser, http://localhost:5173 and try uploading an image. You should see it upload and then download the image.

SST Remix app local

5. Deploy your app

Now let’s deploy your app to AWS.

npx sst deploy --stage production

You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production.

Congrats! Your site should now be live!

Containers

We are going to create a Remix app, add an S3 Bucket for file uploads, and deploy it in a container with the Cluster component.

Before you get started, make sure to configure your AWS credentials.

1. Create a project

Let’s start by creating our app.

npx create-remix@latest aws-remix-container
cd aws-remix-container

We are picking all the default options.

Init SST

Now let’s initialize SST in our app.

npx sst@latest init

Select the defaults and pick AWS. This’ll create a sst.config.ts file in your project root.

2. Add a Service

To deploy our Remix app in a container, we’ll use AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS. Replace the run function in your sst.config.ts.

async run() {
  const vpc = new sst.aws.Vpc("MyVpc");
  const cluster = new sst.aws.Cluster("MyCluster", { vpc });

  cluster.addService("MyService", {
    loadBalancer: {
      ports: [{ listen: "80/http", forward: "3000/http" }],
    },
    dev: {
      command: "npm run dev",
    },
  });
}

This creates a VPC, and an ECS Cluster with a Fargate service in it.

The dev.command tells SST to instead run our Remix app locally in dev mode.

Start dev mode

Run the following to start dev mode. This’ll start SST and your Remix app.

npx sst dev

Once complete, click on MyService in the sidebar and open your Remix app in your browser.

3. Add an S3 Bucket

Let’s allow public access to our S3 Bucket for file uploads. Update your sst.config.ts.

const bucket = new sst.aws.Bucket("MyBucket", {
  access: "public"
});

Add this below the Vpc component.

Link the bucket

Now, link the bucket to the container.

cluster.addService("MyService", {
  // ...
  link: [bucket],
});

This will allow us to reference the bucket in our Remix app.

4. Create an upload form

Add the upload form client in app/routes/_index.tsx. Replace the Index component with:

export default function Index() {
  const data = useLoaderData<typeof loader>();
  return (
    <div className="flex h-screen items-center justify-center">
      <div className="flex flex-col items-center gap-8">
        <h1 className="leading text-2xl font-bold text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100">
          Welcome to Remix
        </h1>
        <form
          className="flex flex-row gap-4"
          onSubmit={async (e) => {
            e.preventDefault();

            const file = (e.target as HTMLFormElement).file.files?.[0]!;

            const image = await fetch(data.url, {
              body: file,
              method: "PUT",
              headers: {
                "Content-Type": file.type,
                "Content-Disposition": `attachment; filename="${file.name}"`,
              },
            });

            window.location.href = image.url.split("?")[0];
          }}
        >
          <input
            name="file"
            type="file"
            accept="image/png, image/jpeg"
            className="block w-full text-sm text-slate-500
              file:mr-4 file:py-2 file:px-4
              file:rounded-full file:border-0
              file:text-sm file:font-semibold
              file:bg-violet-50 file:text-violet-700
              hover:file:bg-violet-100" />
          <button className="bg-violet-500 hover:bg-violet-700 text-white text-sm
            font-semibold py-2 px-4 rounded-full">
            Upload
          </button>
        </form>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

5. Generate a pre-signed URL

When our app loads, we’ll generate a pre-signed URL for the file upload and use it in the form.

Add this above the Index component in app/routes/_index.tsx.

export async function loader() {
  const command = new PutObjectCommand({
    Key: crypto.randomUUID(),
    Bucket: Resource.MyBucket.name,
  });
  const url = await getSignedUrl(new S3Client({}), command);

  return { url };
}

Add the relevant imports.

import { Resource } from "sst";
import { useLoaderData } from "@remix-run/react";
import { getSignedUrl } from "@aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner";
import { S3Client, PutObjectCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";

And install the npm packages.

npm install @aws-sdk/client-s3 @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner

Head over to the local Remix app in your browser, http://localhost:5173 and try uploading an image. You should see it upload and then download the image.

SST Remix app local

6. Deploy your app

To deploy our app we’ll add a Dockerfile.

FROM node:lts-alpine as base
ENV NODE_ENV production

# Stage 1: Install all node_modules, including dev dependencies
FROM base as deps
WORKDIR /myapp
ADD package.json ./
RUN npm install --include=dev

# Stage 2: Setup production node_modules
FROM base as production-deps
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY --from=deps /myapp/node_modules /myapp/node_modules
ADD package.json ./
RUN npm prune --omit=dev

# Stage 3: Build the app
FROM base as build
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY --from=deps /myapp/node_modules /myapp/node_modules
ADD . .
RUN npm run build

# Stage 4: Build the production image
FROM base
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY --from=production-deps /myapp/node_modules /myapp/node_modules
COPY --from=build /myapp/build /myapp/build
COPY --from=build /myapp/public /myapp/public
ADD . .

CMD ["npm", "start"]

This builds our Remix app in a Docker image.

Let’s also add a .dockerignore file in the root.

node_modules
.cache
build
public/build

Now to build our Docker image and deploy we run:

npx sst deploy --stage production

You can use any stage name here but it’s good to create a new stage for production.

Congrats! Your app should now be live!

Connect the console

As a next step, you can setup the SST Console to git push to deploy your app and view logs from it.

SST Console Autodeploy

You can create a free account and connect it to your AWS account.